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As the Civil War began to rage in 1861, the American press became enraptured with an idea—that Giuseppe Garibaldi, the...
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At the climax of the Republican National Convention last night, former President Donald Trump’s nomination-acceptance speech was a disheveled mess,...
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Since October, almost every week—and sometimes several times a day—someone from the Biden presidential campaign team has opened their laptop...
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It happened again: yet another cascading failure of technology. In recent years we’ve had internet blackouts, aviation-system debacles, and now...
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Reading America’s major outlets this week is an invitation to confusion. The Washington Post writes that J. D. Vance’s selection...
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The one time I met J. D. Vance was shortly after his book, Hillbilly Elegy, came out, at an event...
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Before John Fogerty’s life became mine, there was cold. In November 2012, I was 22 and had left the family...
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Democrats in Congress have been developing proposals for the reform of the Supreme Court for years—and this week, we learned...
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For a brief moment last night, Americans saw Donald Trump try something new: Stick to a script. Addressing delegates at...